Abbeyrd Beatles Page news headlines for 2/17/07

Update (2/17/07) from our Beatle News Briefs

- Announcing our new brand-new RSS feed!: Beatle headline updates as they happen!
- Comment: "Let It Be" on DVD ... sometime, please: More comments.
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Abbeyrd Beatles Page news headlines for 2/16/07

Update (2/16/07) from our Beatle News Briefs

- Comment: "Let It Be" on DVD ... sometime, please: More comments.
- A last look at Lennon?: Video
- Paul and Heather announce separation: Heather threatened.
- Smithereens to release Beatle tribute album in January: Link.
- "The Beatles Show" -- upcoming shows
- Magazine alerts: Beatlefan
- Quick news links: No-show Ringo.
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Abbeyrd Beatles Page news headlines for 2/15/07

Update (2/15/07) from our Beatle News Briefs
- Comment: "Let It Be" on DVD ... sometime, please: To "Let It Be" or not "Let It Be" -- more of your comments.
- Quick news links: Report: Heather to be "Dancing With the Stars."
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Abbeyrd Beatles Page news headlines for 2/14/07

Update (2/14/07) from our Beatle News Briefs

Update (2/14/07): Happy Valentine's Day
- Comment: "Let It Be" on DVD ... sometime, please: Your comments
- Merseybeat Hall of Fame inducts Sam Leach
- Yoko to sign copies of her CD in New York: Signing report
- A last look at Lennon?: Extra credit
- Beatles announce Cirque Du Soleil "Love" show soundtrack: More on the vinyl.
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Abbeyrd Beatles Page news headlines for 2/13/07

Update (2/13/07) from our Beatle News Briefs

- Comment: "Let It Be" on DVD ... sometime, please
- Apple shakeup coming?: Goodbye, Neil?
- A last look at Lennon?
- Extra: Excerpts from a new Yoko interview: Link to more complete version
- Beatles announce Cirque Du Soleil "Love" show soundtrack: Vinyl version available
- Paul and Heather announce separation: Heather snaps at photogs
- "Breakfast With the Beatles" KLOS-FM (new home)/Los Angeles playlist: Latest playlist
-- Special book review supplement
- Reviews: "The Beatles In Cleveland" and "Tomorrow Never Knows"
- Review: "Northern Songs"
- Review: Two more great books from Azing Moltmaker
- Review: Doug Sulpy's "Complete Beatles Audio Guide"
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Commentary: "Let It Be" on DVD ... sometime soon, please

The Beatles sing "Let It Be" in the movie of the same name. If we're lucky, we'll have a legit DVD of this sometime in this century.

Apple figurehead Neil Aspinall told Fox News' Roger Friedman over the weekend what we've been telling you for months -- that Beatle songs will be downloadable legally in the near future.

He also spilled another chestnut that we've also been reporting for some time and also wasn't really news -- that the "Let It Be" DVD everyone wants is still light years away. “The film was so controversial when it first came out. When we got halfway through restoring it, we looked at the outtakes and realized: this stuff is still controversial. It raised a lot of old issues.”

What a load of bullspin. The "controversy" is the four Beatles' egos bumping against each other. "Let It Be" was supposed to be an unadulterated look at the Beatles at work, but it ended up looking at the Beatles in disintegration mode. Paul was bossy, George was pissy, John was stoned and Ringo was Ringo.

In other words, everyone was working for themselves, not for the group.
The only thing keeping "Let It Be" from coming on legal DVD is the Beatles themselves. These events happened over 30 years ago. They're history. The only ones who really care a whit about what happened is Paul, Ringo, Yoko (for John) and Olivia (for George).

A word to all of them: Get over it. Whether you realize it or not, the Beatles are fading away into the sunset. Look at the Apple-Apple settlement, folks. As much as we still love them, their influence is fading.

Putting out "Let It Be" actually might boost the Beatles' visibility. The public seems to love fights, especially celebrity fights. The Beatles might not get the attention Britney or Paris get, but at least they'll be noticed a lot.

So put "Let It Be" out on legit DVD. And don't forget the outtakes -- like the backroom boxing matches that got left on the cutting room floor.
Don't let those be hidden forever in a film can locked in a vault.

The alternative: Don't put it out. Let the bootleggers continue to make the money with all the "Let It Be" bootleg DVDs so easily available.

And as Beatle fans have seen so often in the past, the Beatles let the world pass them by again.
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Apple shakeup followup

Musicweek is putting a different spin on what we reported the other day about unrest at Apple, turning it around to say that the Beatles’ willingness to settle with Apple/iTunes may have been hastened by Apple Corps boss Neil Aspinall's plans to retire.

Aspinall's intentions could have persuaded the remaining Beatles and the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison to hurry to put in place a deal and get the Apple house in order before Aspinall leaves, their report claims.

They also quote a source as saying that EMI Recorded Music UK chairman and CEO Tony Wadsworth has been pressuring Apple Corps to settle with Apple Inc and iTunes
after the Beatles lost their UK court battle against the computer company last year.

But another insider close to The Beatles denies this, saying reports of Aspinall’s retirement are greatly exaggerated. (Thanks to SR.)


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Abbeyrd Beatles Page news headlines for 2/12/07

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- If you like 'Free As a Bird,' ...
- "Breakfast With the Beatles," hosted by Dennis Mitchell -- the latest show online
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